I See You

A glowing heat that can be blocked 
but not contained
Emanates through all beings
as love, thought, longing and peace.
When letting this vibrancy through,
We open the common heart that lives beneath
All human longing . . . 

Mark Nepo
The Book of Awakening

All I want

All I want

Is the One

The one thing

I see you

I fight past the veils

Struggle through illusions

of separation

I see you

Your brilliance shines

Reflects, resonates

Pierces my soul

One soul seeing another

I am you

You are me

There is only One

One hunger

One Source

One Voice

Speaking each and all

Singing through a million throats

Splashing myriad canvasses

With color and light

 Beauty

I see you!

You see me

Speak me

Sing me

For what do I yearn?

What is this longing?

Where are you, my Love?

My Life?

See me

See me

Expressions of love vibrate with the One Love

Representations of life resonate with True Life

We fixate on what feels good, looks good, tastes good

...

These are

Windows

Through which light shines

Gateways

Through which to pass
Reflections.  Expressions.  Guides.  Avenues.

Focus on satiation

Feeds the hunger
Focus on Light
Draws you through and in 

There is no shame in the longing

The grasping 
The wandering

All is rooted in the one desire

the one hunger

Common to all

Strung out
Lost in our addictions
Temporary cures fail
We fall
and open our eyes

I delight in the spark

I see in you

For it is also mine

I see you
I see myself
I was never lost.

The Perfect Life

The thing that has been - it is what will be again,

and that which has been done is that which will be done again;

and there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Deep within each of us lives both a leper and a wolf,

both of which we are afraid of.

In Franciscan lore, they are our inner imperfections.

They are always there in some form, 

waiting to be tamed and needing to be forgiven.

Radical Grace: Daily Meditations, Richard Rohr

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We close our eyes

Visiting the dream

Tentatively touching remembered magic

Impotently grasping for the life that was; 

That was to be

Please, no more.

Please no more poorly given love

Love poorly received.

Hurts unintentionally caused

I am the leper.  I am the wolf.

Fear bars the giving. 

The receiving.

There is nothing outside of myself which completes.

No sweet words.

No right touch.

No one's "faith" in me.

No perfect understanding of "truth"

No perfect life.

No place where children do not suffer.

No place where horrific maladies do not strike.

Where the right relationship, the right drug,

the right anything,

fixes all.

Always, always, always

The Source of all I need and desire

Dwells within.

Nowhere else

There are no new answers

No matter how badly I want a quick fix

(and sane explanations for the insanity)

Just discovery/rediscovery

Of what's always been.

Sink down

Sink into the solid embrace

Release the death grip

Preventing your fall

It's okay

Okay to fall away from self made protections

(illusions - delusions)

Structures of identity and value

Which inevitably crumble and collapse

Sing me asleep

Hit me awake

This perfect life

Carries me down and in

Friction removes the lies

Bit by bit

I remember again

 to smile 

through my aching heart.

Yes!

This is life.

Perfect life.

For there is no other.

Butterfly Transformation by Julia Watkins

The path of descent is the path of transformation.  

Darkness, failure, relapse, death, 

and woundedness are our primary teachers, 

rather than ideas or doctrines.

Richard Rohr

Listen to The Perfect Life by Moby

Oh, we close our eyes

The perfect life

Is all we need

You opened up when you had me in your hands

Slipping far away with the world at your command 

You sing me to sleep and then you hit me awake

It's a perfect life, a perfect life

I only want to be here when you're by my side

Oh I believe now, I'll love you 'til I die

You will sing me to sleep, you will hit me awake

In the perfect life

Perfect life 

Oh 

We close our eyes

The perfect life 

Life is all we need

Little Mikey steps everywhere

Knives in his pockets and bullets in his hair

He has nothing to live for

Nothing left to say

He's locking all the doors

to keep the older wolves at bay

Spoons and foil are all he needs

A bed and some china, a lighter and some speed

He will sing you to sleep and then will hit you awake.

In the perfect life, a perfect life. 

Oh 

We close our eyes

The perfect life

Life is all we need

Oh 

We close our eyes

The perfect life

Life is all we need

Oh 

We close our eyes

The perfect life

Life is all we need

Oh 

We close our eyes

The perfect life

Life is all we need

The perfect life

The perfect life

The perfect life

All we need

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